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RoboBee learns to perch to save energy

Engineers at Harvard University have given their robotic bee the ability to perch like a butterfly. The upgrade saves the tiny robots energy and brings the deployment of a new miniature class of search and rescue drones one step closer to reality. Ben Gruber reports.